Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-05-07
AFFAIRS.
Renewed - Bayard on Retail
hon - M~errymakers Re-
buked.

6tion - Merrymakers Re-
azzassa buked.
x1slrsl2s0uldr Correspondent.
~lWAsHIsGTos, May 2, 1881.
slas aafhz dull in Washington, not &
estash sbfHnews stirring, but society has re
Verted with zest to gayety. The mos
prominent recent social event was the per
torrance of the play of "Jim the Penman'
at the National Theatre for the benefit OF
theActors' fund. 1t seems that President
Cleveland and members of his cabinet in.
vited the Madison Square company from
New York. They arrived by a special
train, were accorded a special reception at
the white house, and were shown many
courtesies in their visits to the various de
apartments. President Cleveland occupied
box at the theatre with District Marshal
and Mrs. Wilson and Colonel and Mrs.
Lamont. Nv.
Paragraphs have been going the rounds
of the papers relative to Mr.. Cleveland's
impaired health. / have seen the presi-
dent often during the past two years, but
Gave never known him to look as well as
he does now. His face has neither the
haggard WEAKNESS of his earlier days in
the white house, nor the redness Of a later
period, when its color was frequently com
pared to President Arthur's face. Presi-
dent Clevelands complexion is clear, his
eyes are bright, and his general appearance
that of a man in good health and heart.
The audience at the theatre was a dis
tinguished one. Secretary Bayard sat in
the front row; near him was the British
Minister. The secretaries of the war and
of the navy We're there, and almost IN
marked in the brilliant assemblage sat two
others WHO had been secretaries Of war and
of the navy in a former administration,
Belknap and Robson.
1t is evident that the administration is
disposed to pursue a very conservative
course with reference to the powers rested
in the president by the Retaliation bill.
Secretary Bayard remarked during the
week that he felt that the people outside
of Massachusetts had never realized its
importance or appreciated the gravity of
the alternative left to the administration if
a declaration of non-intereourse failed to
effect a peaceable adjustment of the differ
SllCSS DIbHOC4 LIZ tuCCS III VlCdG
Britain respecting the construction of the
treaty rights of our fishermen.
at is doubtful" he said, 'if the interests
of San Francisco in maintaining her pres
ent source of coal supply from British
Columbia, aside from the Importance. of
the great Chicago business connections
with Canada. and the vast trade that Gibbs
and flows across the 5000 miles OF our
northern boundary, do not exceed the in
terest of Massachusetts in the results of
the application of such an alternative as
CONNIE cial nonintercourse." The neg
tiations with England On this subject are
in progress, and the secretary hopes they
will result in a harmonious and satisfacto-
ry understanding.
There is a probability Of the cabinet, or
some members of it, taking a trip south
soon. Efforts are being made today to Or
game a cabinet party to go to Charleston,
South Carolina, to hear Secretary Lamar's
Grafton at the unwilling Of the Calhoun
monument. Secretary Fairchi1d has ey-
pressed his determination to 60, and others
are anxious to do so, while the orator of
the occasion has extended a pressing invi-
tation' to all of his associates to accompany
him.
Some Washington newspaper men are
in bad repute at the white house new.
Recently at the presidents reception in
the east room, while he was shaking hands
with about three hundred people, mostly
visitors in the city who had come to the
white house to see the president among
the other sights, a group of these gentle
men took a position behind the chief ex-
ecutive and laughed and commented upon
the persons as they filed by in line. The
criticisms were audible and the president
was so much annoyed be the d~iseourtesy
shown the strangers that he turned more
than once and looked reproyingly at the
offenders.
These tri-weekiy receptions to the pub
lie are for the most part attended by
strangers, as above remarked, who could
not be expected to be as familiar with
white house receptions as are the repre-
sentatives of the press who make a bust
ness of attending them. Sometimes call
ers are a little awkward and rather comical
scene occur. but this is the first time the
president has ever taken occasion to COM
plain to the ushers of downright ill-breed-
ing on the part of any newspaper men.
aWooI, Gibson and Hill.o
In its April number the Montana Wool
G1oaeer says: 1.-THE Rioer Press, in answer
to an article in the Great Fails TRIBUNE,
justly gives the credit of interesting the
Manitoba railroad management in northern
Montana to Mr.. Paris Gibson. Montana
wool and Montana's splendid ranges were
4l- .~.oar,a - h.. -, af- sI--- 80 1